sly card and dreambox

[dasteelman]

I will be recieiving a sly uk card in a few days.
I dont have a a sly digibox yet.
I understand that a sly card must be activated in a digibox in which the box key is matched up with the card.
Now i am planning on using the card in a dreambox rather than the sly box and obviously I would simply put the box key into the config files on the emu i would use.
Instead of buying a cheap second hand sly box just so i can activate the card, is there anyway i can activate the card using the dreambox....eg use a made up box key?
thanks

[Ichijoe]

I think you'll be running head-long into Two Problems!
You allready mentioned One of 'em, activation...
The other Problem is the small fact that as far as I know, the Dream, Reel or dbox2 (if you like!), simply can not do NDS-Videoguard So allthough you may have the Card I'm not sure it'll do you any good.

*Note it may ~for all I know~ work if you can setup the proper CAIDs' on you Box. Theoretically this is how you'd do it for the Dragon\T-Rex CAM, and to my knowledge those can't decode NDS either.

Beside back to the point of activation for a sec., it's not a One-shot deal!
You have to insert the Sky \ Yellowhouse Card into a Sky-box at least once every Fortnight (Every 2 weeks ~or so~), to keep the Card updated.
If you fail to do this then you will likely have a 'Dark Screen'.

The part about useing a Dream might be BS granted, but the Card Update stands!
You can not update a Sky \ Yellowhose Card w/o a Skybox...

[dasteelman]

thanks for your reply.

Dreambox does emulate nds with emus such as gbox, newcamd. The box key from the slybox has to be inserted in the emu's config files.

I am of the understanding that the latest emus can indeed update over the air although I would like this 100 % confirmed, otherwise I would have no option but to purchase a cheap slybox.

But back to my original question. Is there anyway I can use a "made up" box key for the dreambox emu and therefore activate the sly card with this "new" boxkey?

I have a feeling Im going to have to puchase a slybox, but if there was a way I could get round this I would like to know.

thanks